SIFA: a scalable file system with intelligent file allocation

Author

Tsai, Hsiao-Ping ; Huang, Jiun-Long ; Chao, Cheng-Ming ; Chen, Ming-Syan ; Liao, Cheen

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Nat. Taiwan Univ., Taipei, Taiwan

fYear

2002

fDate

2002

Firstpage

793

Lastpage

798

Abstract

In this paper we propose and evaluate a new NAS based system which is a consolidated file system in a network environment. The consolidated file system utilizes storage boxes cooperating as peers to provide all file system services, and presents itself to its NFS clients as a unified storage server. We have prototyped several key operations in this system. To provide more performance insights, we build a comprehensive system simulator and conduct extensive performance studies for the system via the simulator This simulator has been run against a workload of a real Web server and the system behavior of this workload is studied. In light of the experimental results, a consolidated file system is being implemented in full scale

Keywords

Internet; file organisation; file servers; naming services; NAS based system; SIFA; consolidated file system; intelligent file allocation; performance insights; real Web server; scalable file system; system behavior; system simulator; unified storage server; Buffer storage; Costs; File servers; File systems; Intelligent systems; Network servers; Scalability; Storage area networks; Switches; Web server;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer Software and Applications Conference, 2002. COMPSAC 2002. Proceedings. 26th Annual International

Conference_Location

Oxford

ISSN

0730-3157

Print_ISBN

0-7695-1727-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CMPSAC.2002.1045102

Filename

1045102